Taming the Demon: A Guide to Raising a Great Sage

Chapter 269 Chapter 268, this one is sent again!

"Spiritual ginseng fruit, originally the spiritual root of heaven and earth, was polluted and alienated by the blood of ancient demons. The fruit contains demon seeds. Eating it can temper the body, prolong life, and increase skill, but it will also be parasitized by demon seeds, and the flesh becomes demon seeds. A hotbed of growth..."

Shen Lang scanned the identification with a fine pen, and the identification result made him quite happy.

This ginseng fruit is actually an extremely rare spiritual root of heaven and earth in ancient times. In the ancient times when gods, humans, and monsters mixed together on the earth, a single ginseng fruit could prolong the life of a mortal by 3000 years.

But as the law of heaven and earth became more and more perfect, gods and demons disappeared from the earth, and the life extension ability of ginseng fruit also plummeted. Up to now, a fruit can only prolong life for about 30 years, and only after the first consumption valid.

This fruit also has the effect of washing the marrow and quenching the body, increasing martial arts cultivation.

But the limitation is that it can't help people hit the key realm.

For example, condensing the true energy seeds, condensing the nine great mystical orifices, hitting the life and death entrance, etc., all of which need to be mastered by the warrior himself.

The ginseng fruit can only increase the martial artist's skill rapidly, and help the warrior save a lot of time for accumulating skill.

But if you don't have enough comprehension and potential, you can't break through key levels on your own, no matter how deep your skills are, you won't be able to improve your realm.

After all, the realm of martial arts, especially the triple ladder, is not enough just to have skill.

Like Duguwei, who has stayed in the third grade of Dacheng for 30 years, his zhenqi is extremely powerful and pure, and he has accumulated enough skill, but he is not sure about hitting the Baihui acupoint and breaking through the life and death barrier.

Therefore, this spiritual ginseng fruit, for warriors like Duguwei who lack talent, potential and impure martial arts will, can only make them quickly reach their limit.

But for peerless geniuses who will not be shackled by bottlenecks and barriers, but also have strong enough self-confidence, determination to break the boat, and strong and pure martial arts will, Lingshen Fruit is very powerful.

It can help young peerless geniuses save a lot of hard work in accumulating skills.

Like Shen Lang, if he eats a piece of fruit, he can advance to the fourth rank in a very short period of time, and then he only needs to condense one of the nine profound orifices by himself to enter the third rank.

Even Mu Qingxue can eat ginseng fruit, one fruit can save her hard work for at least a year.

It was Yan Tianying when he was young, Shen Lang was really uncertain whether the ginseng fruit would be useful to him - Yan Tianying never had bottlenecks or obstacles in his practice, as long as he accumulated a lot of skill, he would be able to achieve success in no time, without any danger or danger. Breakthrough.

His martial arts will is also indestructible, but his skill rises a bit slower.

But maybe it is because of slow work and meticulous work, thick accumulation and thin hair, and having been honed in every realm for long enough, deeply felt enough, and experienced enough, Yan Tianying can become the unparalleled leader in the world.

If, like other great masters, he had been promoted to the first rank around the age of 30, Yan Tianying might not have achieved what he is now.

Yan Tianying, who was considered "dull in aptitude and not very smart" when he was young, is too special, and his growth path cannot be replicated.

Mu Qingxue's growth path is completely different from Yan Tianying's, and it is a standard template for martial arts talents.

Shen Lang is even more special. As a cheating person, of course it is impossible to pursue slow work and meticulous work. He has to go as fast as he can improve his realm.

Anyway, he has both martial arts and martial arts, even if martial arts alone cannot be as invincible as Yan Tianying, adding Taoism and little demons is always enough, right?
Finally, although the spirit ginseng fruit can only prolong life once, there is no limit to the spiritual effect of washing the marrow and quenching the body and increasing the skill.

At least before the first grade, there is no restriction. Every time you eat a fruit, you can wash the marrow and quench your body once, and increase your skills a lot.

In other words, the spiritual ginseng fruit in ancient times, gods and demons can increase their cultivation base if they eat it.

But the current spiritual ginseng fruit has already degraded spiritually with the perfection of the laws of heaven and earth, and has lost the spiritual effect of warming and tempering the primordial spirit. , it is almost useless.

In addition, the last nine spiritual ginseng fruits that the little rabbit snatched from the mouth of the tiger were all polluted by the "blood of ancient demons", and have mutated into demon species——

To be precise, it should be the former great master of martial arts who ate the "spiritual ginseng fruit" that was contaminated by the blood of the ancient demon and mutated into a demon seed. Nutrients, a man-eating demon tree was born.

The fruits produced by the demon tree all inherited the demon seed, and in each fruit, there is a demon seed dormant.

Once someone swallows the fruit, with the help of the fruit in the early stage, they can indeed prolong their life, strengthen their body, and improve their skills by leaps and bounds. Knowing that the demon seed plunders blood and feeds it, and makes offerings to the demon seed to grow into a demon tree.

A Grandmaster of the first rank can still make the demons dare not attack them while they are alive, so they can only stay dormant and use their corpses after their death, but warriors below the first rank will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being parasitic and controlled by the demons before they were alive.

Therefore, the spiritual ginseng fruit produced by this demon tree is, to other warriors, a deadly poison that is sweet at first and then bitter.

But this hidden danger does not exist for Shen Lang.

After the appraisal, Little Moon made a clear conclusion that it could indeed cleanse and purify the demon seeds in the spirit ginseng fruit, turning it into a pure spirit fruit with no future troubles.

Not only that, the purified fruit can also be used as a seed to grow a normal spiritual ginseng fruit tree!

The spiritual effects of spiritual ginseng fruit to wash the marrow, quench the body, and increase the power are not limited, and one can eat all the way to the first grade, but only nine fruits are obviously not enough to eat.

But if a normal spiritual ginseng fruit tree can be planted, it will be developed.

It takes about 1000 years for the spiritual ginseng fruit tree to grow from germination to growth in ancient times.

After that, the flowering period lasts for 500 years, and the young fruit will grow after 500 years of flowering, and it will take another 3000 years for the young fruit to mature.

Even now, the spiritual ginseng fruit tree is degraded, and it takes a full 100 years for the seedlings to grow into a big tree, and another 100 years to bear mature and edible fruits—from this it can be inferred that the remains of the mansion are indeed relics of the previous dynasty , at least 200 years of history, before it can grow the magic tree full of ripe fruits.

If there is no special method, even if Little Moon purifies the fruit and grows seedlings, Shen Lang will die or become immortal before he can eat the ginseng fruit grown by himself.

But, doesn't Shen Lang have a little rabbit who is a little expert in planting?
With little rabbits planted and spawned, the spiritual ginseng fruit tree can not only skip the long development period, but also produce new fruits, and the spiritual effect of the fruit may even become stronger, restoring a bit of the splendor of ancient times.

Shen Lang explained to Mu Qingxue the origin, spiritual effects, and hidden dangers of the spirit ginseng fruit, and collected nine spirit ginseng fruits into the Jingbi space, placed them under the little moon for refining, and then picked up the little rabbit , Another burst of intimacy and praise.

"Xiaoya, is the Wooden Demon that came out after that still underground?"

Mu Qingxue didn't forget her business and asked Little Rabbit.

"It's gone!"

The little rabbit nestled in Shen Lang's arms, with big ruby-like eyes flashing, and said in a soft, sweet and childish voice:
"After eating all the magic tree and fruit, it left the ground. I wanted to follow it quietly to see where it would go, but that guy was very vigilant, and destroyed the ground it dug while escaping. There are still some broken vines left in the passage. I was afraid of attracting it back again, so I didn’t dare to follow too far, and stopped when I encountered the first wave of broken vines.”

Mu Qingxue asked again:
"Can you see what it looks like?"

"See clearly."

The little rabbit jumped out of Shen Lang's arms and drew pictures on the ground with its paws.

Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue leaned over to take a look, and saw that what the little Tutu had drawn was actually a monster like a wireworm.

While drawing, the little rabbit explained:
"That monster is elongated. Its body looks like a huge tree root, but the two ends are exactly the same. It's hard to tell which side is the head and which side is the tail. The overall length is about 50 feet, but it's not too big. Thick, the thickest part will not exceed three people hugging each other.

"The vine tentacles of the devouring demon tree grow from the bark on its surface, and can be separated and survive independently for a period of time.

"Although the separated vines are not as powerful as when they were on the Wood Demon's body, they should not be underestimated. Once a martial artist of rank four or five is surrounded by a large number of vines, they will be swallowed up quickly.

"I also feel that those separated vines have 'spiritual communication' with the Wood Demon body. Once the vines are touched, the Wood Demon body will know immediately. Because of this, after I touched the broken vines, I dare not Continue to follow up."

Having said that, it touched its two small front paws, and asked in a low voice with some anxiety:

"Well, isn't Little Rabbit too timid?"

Shen Lang smiled:
"It's not cowardice, it's called stability, and I've always been like this. Besides, Xiaoya, you have already made great achievements by being the leader today, so how can you ask for more?"

Mu Qingxue also laughed:
"You are so young, you dare to fight that tree demon, and even follow the even more powerful wood demon, you are already considered audacious, and you are not bad compared to your master."

Even Mu Qingxue was so sure of herself, the little rabbit couldn't help shaking her ears, her three-petal mouth couldn't stop moving up, and her ruby-like eyes were full of shy and happy smiles.

Shen Lang picked up the little rabbit again, and while stroking its soft long ears, said in a deep voice:

"Wooden monsters are completely different from the tentacle monsters in the lava river, regardless of their shape and characteristics. One is of the wood attribute and the other is of the fire attribute. There should be a restraint relationship between the two, but there is a subtle connection between the two... Fire, Wood... Next, shouldn't there be gold, water, and soil to make the five elements perfect?"

Shen Lang has always liked to open his mind, and if given a little clue, he would dare to deduce various possibilities boldly.

Of course, whether the speculation is true or not requires careful verification.

Mu Qingxue didn't take it lightly because Shen Lang's guess lacked strong evidence.

Because of bad luck, she has long been used to preparing for the worst in advance.

Besides, although Shen Lang's conjecture has no real basis, it can barely make sense—there is fire and wood, both of which are so strong, and there are subtle connections, then there will be three monsters of gold, water, and earth next. Not impossible.

At that moment, she embraced her chest with one hand and rested her chin with the other, with serious eyes, she said slowly:

"If the five elements are really perfect, then the trouble will be even greater.

"The lava river tentacle monster can't even be killed by Venerable Liuli, and its physical strength is at least comparable to the first rank of martial arts, and may even be slightly better than the first rank of martial arts.

"The wooden demon can easily devour the magic tree. If we confront the magic tree head-on, we can only barely resist it with all our strength. If it weren't for the little rabbit to beat it, we probably wouldn't be able to save so many people.

"In my opinion, although the strength of the spirit ginseng magic tree is not as good as the first grade, it is also above the ordinary second grade. But such a powerful magic tree has no power to fight back in front of the wood demon. Even the magic tree controlled by the little rabbit The roots of the tree were also quickly devoured by the wood demon..."

Shen Lang said:
"The wooden demon should have the same level of suppression of the magic tree as the little rabbit conquered the magic tree. Otherwise, the magic tree shouldn't be so vulnerable."

Mu Qingxue nodded, then shook her head:
"Even so, the Wood Demon is terrifyingly strong, it can shake my protective energy just by 'staring', and if it really wants to attack, I'm no match for it.

"Even if its strength lies in devouring, and the inherent vitality and indestructibility of wood monsters, the ability to destroy and destroy may not be as powerful as the lava river tentacle monster, but even if I hold a second-grade magic hammer, in front of wood monsters, I'm afraid He could only barely escape to protect himself.

"A fire demon comparable to a first-grade monster, and a wood demon with different characteristics but not inferior to a fire demon. These two monsters alone are already a headache. Add three gold, water, and earth to complete the five elements... Master Yan is probably going to have a headache.

"What's more troublesome is that until now, we have not been able to determine whether these monsters are man-made. If they are man-made, who made them."

Shen Lang said calmly:
"No matter what the origin of the monster is, it's nothing more than soldiers coming to block it, and water to cover it. After getting the ginseng fruit, you and I will have a wave of strength improvement in the future. Even if a powerful monster with perfect five elements is born, we can help. Besides. , I also have a goblin with perfect five elements!"

In addition to the little spider far away in the star abyss, Shen Lang has five little demons, Xiaoyu belongs to water, Xiaozhao belongs to metal, Xiaoya belongs to wood, and Xiaoye belongs to fire.Even though Xiaogu is a ghost, he can barely be considered an earth attribute of Nether Earth and Yin Earth.

What about monsters with perfect five elements?

My little fairy with perfect five elements, maybe I can beat you hard.

Hearing his words, Mu Qingxue couldn't help but smile in relief:
"That's true. Xiaoya can defeat the tree demon now, but she may not be able to defeat the wood demon in the future."

After a pause, he asked Shen Lang again:

"The devil seed is hidden in the ginseng fruit, which is very dangerous. Are you sure you can purify the devil seed?"

Shen Lang smiled and said:

"Don't worry, I have my own means, and I will definitely make the ginseng fruit safe and harmless. You see, I can even wash Carlos' son of god blood exclusive warhammer into the treasure of our Shen family. Of course, there is no need to wash the ginseng fruit. no problem."

Seeing that he was so confident, Mu Qingxue, who knew his tricks, didn't question him anymore, and said with a smile:

"Then I will wait to taste the taste of the spiritual fruit."

……

Yan Tianying didn't know what happened to Yunding Devil's Palace, and he couldn't come in the end, so he only entrusted Master Wanfa to come and check.

After Daoist Wanfa arrived at dawn, he asked about the cause and effect, and after making full preparations, he summoned warriors to dig a passage, and then entered the Yifu Mansion with Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue to investigate, but found that the Yifu Mansion had already collapsed completely, no matter how ugly it was. There is no trace of it ever existed.

Master Wanfa searched for a long time, but in the end only a few sword embryos were dug out from the ruins.

The sword embryo is actually made of spiritual iron. If you sacrifice it with a clever refining method, you can eventually get a few fourth-rank or even third-rank swords. It's too shabby.

"There should have been many rare and precious medicines and even martial arts elixir in the Yifu, but all edible ones have obviously been swallowed by the magic tree. As for the martial arts inheritance of the great master, they should all be absorbed by the magic tree That's why you have realized all kinds of false martial arts skills on the Demon Tree."

Daoist Wan Fa is cold and aloof by nature, quite blindsided, waiting for idle warriors, even if they have a third-rank or even second-rank cultivation, she is too lazy to talk to him.

But towards Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue, her attitude is naturally different.

Although Mu Qingxue and Yan Tianying don't have the names of masters and apprentices, they have the reality of masters and apprentices. Master Wan Fa can be regarded as Mu Qingxue's mother-in-law.

As the head of the woman's family, she was honored by Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue together with Yan Tianying, so she can be regarded as Shen Lang's mother-in-law - counting from the elder sister, Master Wanfa is also Shen Lang's mother-in-law.

Therefore, when dealing with Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue, the Dazheng was cold and aloof, and explained them patiently.

Afterwards, at the request of Mu Qingxue, she tried to track down the wooden demon.

It's a pity that even for a real person of the first rank, it is easy to fly to the sky and difficult to escape from the ground.

When the wooden demon left, it destroyed the tunnel it dug in. Even if Master Wanfa could find the traces of the wooden demon's escape, it was impossible for him to dig underground and track it down.

After trying for a while, seeing that there was no ready-made tunnel for passage, Master Wanfa had no choice but to give up.

On the way, they found some broken black green vines left by the wood demon.

But those vines have already self-destructed at this time, completely lost their vitality, turned into dry vines, and turned into dust with a slight touch.

Master Wanfa tried to cast spells to absorb breath from withered vines and dust.But those withered vines and dust didn't even leave a trace of aura. No matter how the real person casts spells, the aura extracted is just the smell of mud and stone where the vines are.

"That Wooden Demon is too sneaky."

Master Wanfa frowned and said:
"It didn't even leave a trace of breath behind. With its ability to hide, unless it shows itself, it's hard to find it."

The investigation was fruitless, so Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue had no choice but to return to the ground with Master Wan Fa.

Dazhen was busy with work, so he handed Shen Lang a small bottle of "Fish Dragon Pill", and then flew away with the Frisbee magic weapon, while Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue stayed and continued to clean up the mess.

The main purpose is to appease the surviving martial arts people, and to inform the local government of the tragedy in the mountain, and ask the government to send people to block the mountain and so on.

After working like this for a whole day, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue finally left Yanzhou and returned to Beijing at dusk.

When Mu Qingxue took him into the sky, Shen Lang always felt as if he had forgotten something.

After thinking about it carefully for a while, I just remembered, but I forgot the flying knife master Lu Tianchen who was suspected to be Xiaogu's father.

Speaking of which, when the Yifu collapsed and Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue hurriedly withdrew from the Yifu, they also saw Lu Tianchen.

When Mu Qingxue told the crowd to evacuate down the mountain quickly, Lu Tianchen also followed the crowd down the mountain.

Afterwards, when Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue followed Master Wanfa to revisit the ruins of the Yifu and went down the mountain to appease the surviving martial arts practitioners, Lu Tianchen had already disappeared.

"It seems that he left early."

Shen Lang secretly said in his heart:

"It's fine to leave. Xiaogu can't take human form now, and he can't remember what happened before he was alive. It's impossible to let their father and daughter recognize each other. Anyway, I already know his identity. When Xiaogu remembers the past, I can see him again." Changing human form, it's not too late to find him as a relative..."

……

In an underground cave full of dirty black mud swamps.

At first glance, it looks like a snake dragon, but when you look closely, it is a strange monster with a lot of wet soil and stones attached to its body, which looks like tree roots, but has no head or tail. It lives quietly in the mud like a snake coil. .

Suddenly, a white light suddenly lit up in the dry part of the cave, and a circular magic circle composed of countless runes and rituals floated above the ground out of thin air.

After that, a tall figure slowly stepped out from the magic circle.

This is a middle-aged man with a majestic face, a mustache, a red robe with gold trim, and a bun.

He walked to the edge of the black swamp, took out a fist-sized ink green orb, and shook it lightly at the huge tree root monster.

The orb bloomed with dark green light, shining on the tree root monster.

The tree root monster trembled for a while, and a cluster of dark green vines grew on the surface, wrapped in a strange crystal the size of a pigeon egg, with gold patterns on a silver background, in the shape of a heart, and slowly pulsating, slowly extending to the middle-aged man. .

The middle-aged man raised his hand to take down the strange spar that looked like a living thing, and a sigh of regret appeared on his majestic face:
"Spiritual Heart Stone...the life-prolonging treasure that can only be condensed by the Green Demon God after devouring a hundred fully mature spiritual ginseng fruits. A single spiritual heart stone can prolong life by 100 years. Unfortunately, it has no effect on me..."

After a while of regret, a gloomy look appeared in his eyes again:
"However, this Spiritual Heart Stone can attract a strong supporter, and... the kind who is obedient to me..."

He took out a wooden box with natural dragon scale patterns on the surface, and put this "spiritual heart stone" into it. The middle-aged man put away the wooden box, glanced at the tree root monster lying quietly, and muttered to himself :
"The Green Demon God has grown to the limit, but he has not yet broken through the shackles of the mortal world... Do you want to try to take him to Yunding Demon Palace to see if he can grow into a real demon god?"

After a little hesitation, he shook his head and rejected the idea:

"No, if it is brought to Genting Demon Palace and truly grows into a demon god, not to mention the possibility of it getting rid of my control, even if it does not get rid of control, it will still belong to me, but it will never come to the world again.

"At that time, even if I want to borrow its power, I have to prepare a grand blood sacrifice first... Forget it, anyway, in the mortal world, the power of the limit in the world is enough."

There was a flash of light under his feet, and the magic circle unfolded again. The figure of the middle-aged man faded away, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.

[Cervical spondylosis broke out again, dizziness and tinnitus, especially the back of the head hurts badly, today I only have [-] words.But still ask for a monthly pass~! 】

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